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The Swallowtail Moths (URANIIDAE, Uraniinae) of Papua Indonesia

by Siep and Jannie Sinnema

Cyphura (Cyphura) mastrigti Sinnema & Sinnema-Bloemen, 2018


Distribution

 

 

 

 

STATUS: A rare species. Only recorded from Numfor Island. It is very similar to the other endemic Cyphura species of the island, C. numforensis, but the genitalia are very different.

PAPUA LOCALITIES: Numfor Island: Namber, Suer. Details in gazetteer.

EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: none.

DATA SOURCES: NHMUK, KSP.

 

 

 

 

 

 


Literature

Sinnema, S. & J. Sinnema-Bloemen, 2018. Revision of the genus Cyphura Warren, 1902. Part II: The caudiferaria-, phantasmah- and pardata-group from the Indo-Pacific region with eight new species (Lepidoptera: Uraniidae: Uraniinae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 161: 39-62.